Student Talks: 06/19/2026 - The sleeping mind is a ghost. It doesn’t want to see how much it loves the haunted house it claims it can’t stand living in, but yet won’t leave.

Student Talks: 05/22/2026 - Learn what it means to give all you have to whatever it is that you may be doing in the moment, for only the cost of "taking pains" to complete that action can complete you.

Classroom Talk: 6/18/2004 - If we would examine closely the strands of those unseen webs that seem to catch and hold us captive every day, we would see that they are nothing more than the stuff of our own thoughts -- spun off by a mind never quite content to be where it is with what it has.

Classroom Talk: 4/25/2003 - Just as we know that we're responsible when a thief steals our car because we left it unattended with the keys in the ignition, so should we realize that we have no one else to blame for how bad we feel whenever we permit negative states to steal into our heart and drive off with it!

Classroom Talk: 7/2/2004 - The secret purpose of that self-loathing nature in us -- that wants us to suffer today for what we could not do yesterday -- is not there to help us make straight our mistakes, but rather to ensure that we waste the rest of our days struggling to escape the ache of useless regrets. Awake! Detect and reject despair! It is not the guiding light it seems to be, but it is a cold heat that compromises any heart into which it seeps.

Classroom Talk: 11/28/2003 - One reason we must learn to say "Yes" to life -- regardless of how much we may not want what it brings -- is that whenever we embrace a fearful or negative view of some unwanted situation, not only must we still find our way through the twists and turns of such trials, but now we must also walk through them blinded by what is no less than the darkness of our own discontent.

In this brief talk, Guy Finley talks about how we will always experience resistance, but that it only becomes "our" resistance, which then turns into negativity, when we unconsciously allow our minds to assign its own meaning to the moment.

The hardest part of the journey along the upward path is the gradual realization that one's work to awaken is, at best, imperfect. Along the ascending path each footfall serves to echo an unwanted reminder of one's imperfect actions, imperfect thoughts, imperfect emotions, imperfect devotion, imperfect attention, so forth on and so on. However, seeing the truth of oneself in this light is but...

Classroom Talk: 10/6/2004 - Not wanting events to unfold as they do often feels like a measure of control over unwanted moments, but any negative reaction to reality is only an unseen form of self-punishment and not the rescuing power we mistake it to be. The only thing our resistance to life adds to us is the weight of a self-induced suffering born of a needless worry.